Mark 14:64 (WEB)
You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
Fathers and councils · 18
Augustine of Hippo
Chapter VII.—Of the Thorough Harmony of the Evangelists in the Different Accounts of What Took Place in the Early Morning, Previous to the Delivery of Jesus to Pilate; And of the Question Touching the Passage Which…
Read the whole comment“…priests, in whose presence He was first heard, answered and said, “He is guilty of death,” an utterance which we find reported both by Matthew and by Mark; so that they are taken to have introduced, in the form of a recapitulation, at a later stage, facts relating to the denial of Peter, which in point of…” — editor's note: Matt. xxvi. 66; Mark xiv. 64.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- BedeCatena Aurea on Mark
The more Jesus remained silent before the false witnesses who were unworthy of His answer, and the impious priests, the more the High Priest, overcome with anger, endeavoured to provoke Him to answer, that he might…
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But our God and Saviour Himself, Who brought salvation to the world, and assisted mankind by His love, is led as a sheep to the slaughter, without crying, and remained mute and “kept silence yea even from good…
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But He remained silent because He knew that they would not attend to His words, wherefore He answered according to Luke, “If I tell you, ye will not believe.” [Luke 22:67] Wherefore there follows: “Again the High…
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But they looked from afar off for Him, whom though near they cannot see, as Isaac from the blindness of his eyes does not know Jacob who was under his hands, but prophecies long before things which were to come to…
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For He knew that they would not believe, nevertheless He answered them, lest they should afterwards say, If we had heard any thing from Him, we would have believed on Him; but this is their condemnation, that they…
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Matthew, however, does not say that Jesus answered, “I am,” but, “Thou has said.” But Mark shews that the words “I am” were equivalent to “Thou hast said.” There follows: “And ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on…
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As if He had said, Ye shall see Me as the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the Father, for He here calls the Father, “power”. He will not however come without a body, but as He appeared to those who crucified…
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If therefore to thee, O Jew, O Pagan, and heretic, the contempt, weakness, and cross in Christ are a subject of scorn, see how by this the Son of Man is to sit at the right hand of the Father, and to come in His…
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The High Priest indeed asks the Son of God, but Jesus in His answer speaks of the Son of Man, that we may by this understand that the Son of God is also the Son of Man; and let us not make a quaternity (a reference…
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But Caiaphas, to increase the odiousness of what they had heard, “rent his clothes,” and without knowing what his frantic action meant, by this madness, deprived himself of the honour of the priesthood, forgetting…
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The High Priest does after the manner of the Jews; for whenever any thing intolerable or sad occurred to them, they used to rend their clothes. In order then to shew that Christ had spoken great and intolerable…
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But it was also with a higher mystery, that in the Passion of our Lord the Jewish priest rent his own clothes, that is, his ephod, whilst the garment of the Lord could not be rent, even by the soldiers, who crucified…
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The Jewish priesthood was to be rent from the time that they condemned Christ as guilty of death. Wherefore there follows: “And they all condemned Him to be guilty of death.”
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They condemned Him to be guilty of death, that by His guiltiness He might absolve our guilt. It goes on: “And some began to spit on Him, and to cover His face, and to buffet Him, and to say unto Him, Prophecy: and…
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By saying, “Prophesy, who is he that smote thee,” they mean to insult Him, because He wished to be looked upon as a prophet by the people.
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We must understand by this, that the Lord suffered these things till morning, in the house of the High Priest, whither He had first been brought.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Leo the Great on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 14:60–65 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).